Former 100m world-record holder Asafa Powell won the Jamaican Championships 100m final in a reported 9.84 seconds, while Olympic silver medalist Yohan Blake failed to reach the final in Kingston on Friday night.
Olympic and World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took the women’s 100m title in 10.79 seconds, the fastest time in the world since 2013 (race video here). Veronica Campbell-Brown, a two-time Olympic 200m champion, was third in 11.06.
The results should send Powell, Fraser-Pryce and Campbell-Brown to the World Championships, with three other Jamaican 100m sprinters in each event, and will keep Blake from going to Worlds in the 100m.